Isaac de Camondo

Count Isaac de Camondo (born 3 July 1851 in Istanbul; died 7 April 1911 in Paris) was a member of the House of Camondo, noted primarily as an art collector[1] with a noteworthy interest in the then "avant-garde" artists of the Impressionist[2] and Post-Impressionist movements. He bequeathed his collection to The Louvre in 1908,[3] for which a new suite of exhibition rooms was arranged on the second floor of the wing between the Pavillon Mollien and the Grande Galerie and opened in mid-1914.[4]:281

Photograph of Comte Isaac de Camondo circa 1890

He inherited the principal role in the family's banking business in 1889,[5][6] but did not display interest in the bank's development and closed its Istanbul operations in 1894.[4]:213 He was also a skilled amateur composer.[7]

A generous philanthropist who did not insist on giving his name to initiatives he sponsored, he was instrumental in the creation of the Société des amis du Louvre[4]:272 and in the establishment of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées by Gabriel Astruc.[8]:265

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